Posted on 11/24/2010 8:00:04 AM PST by Elwood P. Doud
This Junk Won't Fly The idiocy of airport-scanner "Opt-Out Day." By William Saletan Should you opt out of an airport body scan?In case you haven't heard, there's a big holiday coming up. No, I don't mean Thanksgiving. I mean the day before it. Wednesday is the busiest air travel day of the year, and a horde of paranoid zealots—techno-libertarians, Tea Partiers, rabble-rousers, Internet activists, and congressional demagogues—has decided to make it even worse. They're calling it "National Opt-Out Day."
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Here is a very disturbing story that I hope Fox investigates that documents the collusion between DHS and the TSA to stifle dissent about the TSA’s intrusive security measures and put those people who object to the process, including media personnel, on a list of domestic extremists. This is pure fascism and must be stopped. The story is at http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30286.
“if you were to come to this topic cold, you would assume that liberals/conservatives would be weighing in on this issue from the opposite sides of where we currently are”
No I wouldn’t.
The liberals would be screaming along with us if this was President McCain.
The scary part is how many on this board wouldn't be screaming along side us if there was a President McCain.
Typical drooling, mind numbed leftist: when the public is outraged, blame it on having the wrong kind of public.
The idiocy is that we are busy looking for bombs, when we should be looking for bombers.
Not scary at all since there are so few as to be insignificant.
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